Reinventing undergraduate education

The Annual Conference on Higher Education Innovation is a platform to discuss and promote higher education reform and innovation. China’s 13th Five-Year Plan for National Education Development, issued by the State Council, highlights the need to deepen the reform of undergraduate education and to implement experiential, cooperative, participatory and seminar-based models of student-centred learning.

Gathering together people interested in the reform and innovation of higher education, and who have ideas and experience they are willing to share, the Annual Conference on Higher Education Innovation aims to build consensus, explore paths for change, give the opportunity to share experiences of change, and achieve cooperation.

During this important historical moment, higher education practitioners will be invited to reflect on the following questions:

What kind of talents should be trained in our universities?

How can we develop these talents?

How can personnel training be reformed from the perspective of educational concepts, teaching content and method, teaching quality evaluation systems etc?

How can teachers be encouraged to explore innovation in teaching and how can we improve evaluation systems to develop high level teachers?

How we can promote the reform and innovation of undergraduate education in China with the help of high-quality international education ideas and resources?

The organising committee of this second annual conference event invites educators committed to change to attend and jointly reshape undergraduate education in China.

Schedule

(FOR REFERENCE ONLY)

Thursday 18 May 2017

10am – 6pm: Registration/exhibition/campus tour/workshop

Exhibition of work from the XJTLU National University Teaching Innovation Award 2017

Sharing space for “Student-Centred Guidelines for the construction of college education system”

Saturday 20 May (2pm - 5pm) Sunday 21 May AM (9am - 12pm)

As a new mode of education, Sino foreign cooperative education projects and institutions are committed to importing high-quality international educational ideas and resources into China. After 10 years of vigorous development, Sino-foreign cooperative education has become an important force in promoting the innovation of higher education reform in China, and it has had a positive impact on the reform and development of China's undergraduate education.

Topics:

Reform and innovation of global undergraduate education

Concepts and approaches for undergraduate education in Sino foreign cooperation in running schools

The impact of Sino foreign cooperation in running schools on the reform of undergraduate education in China.

Saturday 20 May (2pm - 5pm)

Theme forum two: Reshaping teacher development

In order to deepen comprehensive reform in higher education, institutional obstacles need to be removed in order to promote the development of university teachers and to encourage their enthusiasm. Developing talents is key to building a scientific evaluation and incentive system for professional development, for promoting the reform of teaching methods, and for developing high-quality teachers

Topics:

Professional development for teachers and support system

Reform of mechanisms for teacher evaluation: the basic status of teaching in assessment.

Saturday 20 May (2pm - 5pm) Sunday 21 May AM (9am - 12pm)

Theme forum three: Elementary education

It is not possible to reform undergraduate education without the support of elementary education. This forum will provide a platform for elementary education and higher education practitioners to discuss how to improve the quality of elementary education with the goal of talent training and how primary and secondary school principals can strengthen the development of core competencies through school reform.

Topics:

Students’ core literacy at elementary level from the perspective of higher education

School reform: Cultivation system - enhancing core literacy

Part of Guest speakers

Youmin Xi, Executive President of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool

Yongxin Zhu, Vice-chairman of the Chinese Education Society; Initiator of New Educational Experiment